INVESTORS & EU PROGRAMMES
Pictor Consulting AB is an engineering-led consultancy in system safety, embedded systems and product security. This page is written for two readers: partners assembling EU-funded consortia, and investors who build value through active ownership of specialist companies.
EU PROGRAMMES
You need a partner who can own safety and cybersecurity assurance in a work package, deliver against a grant agreement and stand behind the results in review.
Consortium profileOWNERSHIP
You are a long-term, engaged owner of specialist companies — growing them through boards, structure and shared business support rather than volume staffing or quick exits.
The ownership caseTHE COMPANY
MARKET
Regulation has turned engineering documentation into a market requirement, and the work is hard to staff.
Manufacturers placing products with digital elements on the EU market face obligations across the whole product lifecycle, including reporting duties. Most product organisations have documentation, but not defensible evidence.
Connected safety-critical products can no longer be assessed separately. Very few consultancies can carry both chains in one engagement.
Buyers increasingly need traceable records that survive external review — not reports that restate the regulation.
The work cannot be delivered by volume staffing. Growth follows senior capability and repeatable method.
CONSORTIUM PROFILE
A small, senior partner that takes a defined work package and delivers reviewable results — the assurance role that industrial partners rarely have in house.
Hazard and threat analysis, safety and security concepts, verification strategy and the assurance argument that ties them together — written to be reviewed, not filed.
CRA, machinery, medical or defence requirements translated into engineering work items, with the evidence chain each obligation needs.
Scope, risk, architecture, verification and evidence carried as one connected chain, reusable across pilots and demonstrators.
Results turned into practice that industrial partners can adopt, and fed back into the standards the sector will be measured against.
PROGRAMME FIT
Programmes whose calls match the competence Pictor brings. Awarded participation is listed under track record below.
Cluster 3 (civil security) and Cluster 4 (digital, industry and space) projects that need assurance, resilience and certification competence in an SME partner.
Cybersecurity capacity building and deployment actions where CRA obligations meet real product organisations.
ITEA, CELTIC-NEXT and Xecs style projects — the consortium format Pictor has already worked in.
EDF and national defence programmes where system safety, MIL-STD-882 practice and security assurance run together.
APPLICATION READINESS
Proposal deadlines are short. These are the partner inputs Pictor can deliver without slowing a submission down.
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Swedish limited company with registration and VAT details, ready for participant registration and PIC validation.
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Named senior personnel with programme roles, sector experience and publication or consortium history.
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Annual accounts and financial capacity information provided directly to coordinators and funding bodies on request.
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Documented working method, deliverable structure, timesheet discipline and cost reporting suited to grant audits.
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GDPR practice, confidentiality routines and background/foreground IP positions agreed before the consortium agreement is signed.
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Support letters, commitment statements and partner descriptions drafted quickly inside proposal deadlines.
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
The administrative and technical evidence an evaluator or coordinator asks a partner for — and where Pictor stands on each item today.
Swedish limited company with registration number, VAT number and legal representative data prepared for the EU Funding & Tenders Portal, including supporting documents for validation.
Named senior personnel with CVs, programme roles, sector references and publication or consortium history — the evidence used to assess implementation capacity.
Annual accounts and the self-assessment data a coordinator or funding body needs for financial viability checks, shared directly in a documented process.
Objectives, tasks, deliverables, milestones and person-month effort for the assurance work package, written in the proposal template within deadline.
Hourly cost model, timesheet discipline, indirect-cost handling and audit-ready cost reporting aligned with grant agreement rules.
Input to ethics issues tables and, for dual-use or defence-adjacent work, security self-assessment and classification handling.
Data management plan contributions, FAIR handling of project data, confidentiality routines and processing agreements for personal data.
Background IP declared, foreground and access-right positions agreed before the consortium agreement (DESCA-based) is signed.
Standardisation routes, industrial uptake and communication commitments — plus the exploitation claims Pictor can credibly stand behind.
Signed LOI, company profile and partner description delivered fast enough to fit a live submission schedule.
Pictor participates as an SME partner or work-package lead. We do not claim awarded grants on this page — programme participation is listed under track record, and all administrative evidence is shared directly with coordinators and funding bodies.
TRACK RECORD
Pictor has contributed to applied research on assurance, blended modelling and safe cooperation between cyber-physical systems.
ITEA
Blended modelling for cross-disciplinary software and systems engineering.
CELTIC-NEXT
5G-enabled healthcare use cases across hospital, home and emergency environments.
ECSEL
Safe and secure cooperation of cyber-physical systems.
ECSEL
An assurance and certification platform for cyber-physical systems.
THE OWNERSHIP CASE
Pictor is looking for an engaged, long-term owner who contributes board work, structure and shared business support — the model that turns a senior expert company into a company larger than its founders, without diluting the engineering culture that created it.
The value sits in a repeatable method for safety and security evidence. That method can be taught, staffed and reviewed — so the company can grow past the people who built it.
Pictor wants a working board: strategy, recruitment, pricing and reporting discipline. Ownership that contributes competence is worth more here than passive capital.
Finance, legal, sales and administration handled in a group structure let senior engineers stay on billable, high-trust work.
CRA readiness leads into lifecycle, vulnerability handling and documentation work. Programme roles run for years, not weeks.
Safety and security assurance sits naturally next to project management, energy, infrastructure and industrial engineering firms — the same clients, the same complex projects.
Capital goes to senior recruitment, method tooling and proposal capacity for EU programmes. We prefer owners who hold, develop and add companies over years — not a fund calendar.
BOARD WORK
Pictor wants owners in the room where strategy, pricing and recruitment are decided. Governance is already documented and open to review before an investment.
Goes straight to management, tagged as Board work.
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Board agenda, management reporting, pipeline review and budget follow-up — the structure an owner can step straight into.
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We are looking for chairs and board members with experience in professional services, regulated industry and pricing of senior expertise.
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Recruitment profile, utilisation targets, framework agreements and which regulatory practice to build next.
SHARED BUSINESS SUPPORT
Every hour senior engineers spend on finance, contracts and administration is an hour not spent on assurance work. Shared functions inside a group convert directly into capacity.
Goes straight to management, tagged as Shared business support.
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Consolidated accounting, cost reporting suited to grant audits and KPI reporting on a group standard.
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Framework agreements, DPAs, IP annexes and consortium agreements handled with group legal support.
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Tender desk, proposal production and demand generation so senior consultants sell through expertise, not admin.
SCALABILITY
The asset is a repeatable traceability chain — scope, risk, architecture, verification, evidence. It can be taught, staffed, priced and reviewed, which is what makes the company scalable rather than personal.
Goes straight to management, tagged as Scalability & method.
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Templates, checklists and evidence structures that let a new senior consultant deliver to the same standard within weeks.
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Each senior hire carries their own engagements; capital goes into recruitment, method tooling and proposal capacity.
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CRA readiness leads into lifecycle, vulnerability handling and documentation work — long engagements, repeat clients, predictable load.
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Safety and security assurance sits next to project management, energy, infrastructure and industrial engineering — same clients, same complex projects.
GROWTH PRIORITIES
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Adding experienced consultants in cyber resilience and functional safety, each able to own a programme.
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Turning the traceability chain — scope, risk, architecture, verification, evidence — into tooling and reusable structure.
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Readiness assessments that lead into lifecycle, vulnerability handling and documentation engagements.
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Applied research participation that keeps the method ahead of the standards it will be measured against.
ENQUIRY
A few structured answers let us reply with the right material — entity data, PIC and CVs for a submission, or the ownership case and financials for an investor.
DIRECT CONTACT
Investor enquiries and consortium invitations are handled by the CEO. No intermediaries, no investor portal.
Pictor does not publish financial forecasts or projections on this page. Financial statements, capacity information and reference details are shared directly, on request, with investors, coordinators and funding bodies in a documented process.
CEO & Senior System Architect
More than 20 years of experience in functional safety and system architecture, including roles as system architect, functional safety specialist and Safety Officer in international research and industry projects.
INVESTOR CONTACT
Investor enquiries are handled directly by management, normally within two working days.